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Jan 29
ICE, remove your masks.
Don’t be like these ISIS cowards who hide being anonymity and who use that anonymity to intimidate and terrorize people. 👇🏼
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Loren Thacker retweeted
18 Feb 2025
We pledge loyalty to these principles—not politicians. 🇺🇸
Read the full Declaration here: principlesfirst.us/principle…
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3 Jul 2024
Below is a link to an excellent essay by @JesseSingal and it should be read by @coopermarianne, @DrMaximVoronov, and @laurahelmuth (Editor in Chief of @SciAm).
The subtitle of Cooper and Voronov’s SciAm essay, which Singal reviews, declares: “We are living through a terrible time in humanity.”
That’s quite a claim given the 200,000-year-old history of Homo sapiens. @sapinker, in his book “Enlightenment Now,” makes a persuasive argument that humans are now living at the best time in human history. Would the SciAm essay authors exchange today’s world for the world humans inhabited at any time in our history? 1950? 1860? 1500? When? Of course they wouldn’t.
Rather than living in a “terrible time in human history,” I think what the authors are really comparing is a “terrible time in human history RELATIVE TO a utopian conception of how humanity should live,” not a comparison with the human condition in actual history. And what does that approach accomplish?
While humans have many major challenges, Cooper and Voronov seem to embrace a “narcissism of small differences” to depress people into action — but the principal result of promoting doomsday views like theirs is not action but a breeding of anxiety, depression, and cynicism.
x.com/jessesingal/status/180…
24 Jun 2024
I made fun of a very silly Scientific American article arguing we're living in historically bad times, and mused a bit about why people embrace this belief. Also -- and perhaps most importantly -- I had ChatGPT generate an image of a clown apocalypse.
jessesingal.substack.com/p/o…
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30 Dec 2023
By the way, I did a search for your book (Justice by Way of Democracy) on my library system here in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul) and this is the only result that popped up. 🤣
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19 Dec 2023
If gender is non-binary, and if there is a spectrum of genders, then what is “the gender pay gap”?
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30 Nov 2023
My sense is that Penn State made the right call and the mess at Boston does not surprise me. Kendi is a deeply unserious man.
I would be curious to know if the other centers really are embracing Kendi’s view that if there are racial disparities, then they are entirely due to racism. Full stop.
People should read “Discrimination and Disparities” by Thomas Sowell of Stanford. He would say that some racial disparities may be caused by racism; other disparities may be caused by racism mixed with other factors; and still other disparities may be caused by factors which have nothing to do with racism. Kendi sees a disparity and simply declares: “That is racism.”
Sowell’s assessment is far more plausible (it’s usually a complex mix of causal factors). But if disparities are assumed to be caused solely by racism, then disparities won’t be addressed in those cases where other factors are at play because those other factors will be ignored. Intellectually, this stuff can’t pass the smell test of basic rigor.
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30 Nov 2023
P.S. @callimcflurry, I see you are studying Science, Health, & Environmental Reporting. Are you taking several statistics and data analysis courses? As a lay person, I have no real way of assessing the methodological validity of a scientific study or paper.
Here is a super example from New York Magazine of a journalist really diving into a matter and then explaining it with great clarity to his layperson readers. The replication crisis in the social sciences signals, to me, that the peer-review process is broken. So, there is a vital role to be played by journalists to come to academic claims from a perspective of significant skepticism. Being able to assess study validity will be hugely important for you if you want to be that kind of journalist.
thecut.com/2017/01/psycholog…
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7 Nov 2023
@MsFranc3 What do you think of this? Does she think the US has stolen its innovation ideas from…Kenya?
That all of the Nobel Prizes by American scientists are based on widespread plagiarism of idea from the “real” innovators?
That the US leads in AI development (among many other areas) because some other countries are “actually” in the lead and the US just stole all of those ideas?
That American universities are not among the world’s best — and that it is a fiction that millions of students come to the US to study — and that the “real” best universities are actually in East Africa?
That Silicon Valley is just a place of the very and the hundreds of thousands of scientists there are simply stealing all of the good ideas from others, like Kenya?
Really?
7 Nov 2023
Yep. They're quite innovative in stealth: in poaching innovators from foreign countries and selling their brands on innovations from other countries. They have no talent of their own.
cnbc.com/2023/08/09/us-chip-…
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7 Nov 2023
I know it’s just anecdotal evidence, @MsFranc3, but at the company I worked for until retirement, we employed over 1,000 scientists and engineers and invested billions of dollars in research & development equipment and facilities — but we were actually just stealing all of the ideas from other countries? 🤣
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6 Sep 2023
Is this true, @Pepsi and @PepsiCo? Are you still conducting business in Russia or receiving any profits from any business in Russia?
5 Sep 2023
Pepsi Co is arming Russia:
- Pepsi Co is doing business as usual in Russia, and increased revenue in 2022. They even launched a new product during the war and currently have hundreds of job vacancies there.
- Pepsi Co has paid $115M in taxes to Russia last year.
- The most modern Russian tank, the T-14, costs $7M, so that's 16 new tanks thanks to Pepsi Co. Taxes are absolutely going to war efforts.
- Pepsi Co is now listed as an International War Sponsor by Ukraine's National Corruption Prevention Agency (Sept. 1)
- The airline SAS has just banned Pepsi Co products, so has the Finnish parliament naming it "Blood Pepsi" (Sept. 5, more bans coming)
- Please stop using any of their brands, which include Lay's Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, SodaStream, and others. Lay's chips were reportedly found in Russian soldiers' food rations.
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Loren Thacker retweeted
14 Aug 2023
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A new set of ideas, often called "woke," has won enormous power over the past decade.
Some have uncritically accepted them. Others have vilified them. Few have critiqued them in a serious manner.
That's what I do in my new book: The Identity Trap.
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26 Jul 2023
@Xfinitysupprt On August 7, it will have been TWO MONTHS since a new cable was run to our house. It just needs to be buried. I have connected with an Xfinity agent at least five times and they seem incapable of doing a SIMPLE task: Bury the Xfinity cable.
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26 Jul 2023
I have connected with an Xfinity agent at least five times. Yet, here I sit with a bright orange Xfinity cable strung across our lawn. The last time, I was “promised” I would get a call from a special 3rd party Xfinity team on Monday at 8AM. I have heard nothing.
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26 Jul 2023
So say I am infuriated would be an understatement. I’m getting a better understanding of why people are “cutting the cord” with cable. I have spent HOURS of my time trying to get a simple Xfinity cable buried by Xfinity.
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Loren Thacker retweeted
24 May 2023
"Trump’s sensibilities have become theirs; they have thoroughly internalized his will-to-power ethic. An extraordinary psychological and moral accommodation has occurred." @TheAtlantic
theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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18 Apr 2023
Well, Bing may represent intelligent life after all!
@CHSommers @CaitlinPacific @Docstockk @jk_rowling @BuckAngel @FondOfBeetles @hoovlet
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